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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kvm/api.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt index f9724dc8d07..6f362356e73 100644 --- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt @@ -958,9 +958,9 @@ executed a memory-mapped I/O instruction which could not be satisfied by kvm. The 'data' member contains the written data if 'is_write' is true, and should be filled by application code otherwise. -NOTE: For KVM_EXIT_IO and KVM_EXIT_MMIO, the corresponding operations -are complete (and guest state is consistent) only after userspace has -re-entered the kernel with KVM_RUN. The kernel side will first finish +NOTE: For KVM_EXIT_IO, KVM_EXIT_MMIO and KVM_EXIT_OSI, the corresponding +operations are complete (and guest state is consistent) only after userspace +has re-entered the kernel with KVM_RUN. The kernel side will first finish incomplete operations and then check for pending signals. Userspace can re-enter the guest with an unmasked signal pending to complete pending operations. @@ -1015,6 +1015,19 @@ s390 specific. powerpc specific. + /* KVM_EXIT_OSI */ + struct { + __u64 gprs[32]; + } osi; + +MOL uses a special hypercall interface it calls 'OSI'. To enable it, we catch +hypercalls and exit with this exit struct that contains all the guest gprs. + +If exit_reason is KVM_EXIT_OSI, then the vcpu has triggered such a hypercall. +Userspace can now handle the hypercall and when it's done modify the gprs as +necessary. Upon guest entry all guest GPRs will then be replaced by the values +in this struct. + /* Fix the size of the union. */ char padding[256]; }; |